A new political willingness
has emerged to embrace the idea that the European Union and the
United Nations must take up initiatives to combat human
trafficking, said Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni
speaking after an extraordinary foreign and home affairs
ministers' meeting held Monday to debate recent events in the
Mediterranean.
On the night between Saturday and Sunday, a migrant boat
capsized off the coast of Libya, with a victim toll feared to be
as high as 900, resulting in a Mediterranean disaster that EU
sources said was a "game changer" requiring "clear and
substantive" moves and an end to finger-pointing.
"There's a greater awareness, finally, in Europe (on human
trafficking)," said Gentiloni, who also thanked Federica
Mogherini, the European Union's high representative for foreign
affairs, for also contributing to this new awareness.
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